On a quiet August morning, Judge Deborah Knott's father Kezzie makes a shocking discovery on a remote corner of his farm: the body of a man bludgeoned to death.

When Hannah loses out on the cottage of her dreams because of an unscrupulous real estate agent, she and her husband, Paul, buy a fixer-upper instead. But contractors restoring the chimney soon make a tragic discovery: the mummified body of an infant.

Now a motion picture starring Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Banks, Diane Lane, and Danielle Macdonald, EVERY SECRET THING will air in theaters across the country this Friday, May 15th and be available on-demand.

In The Food Lab, Kenji focuses on the science behind beloved American dishes, delving into the interactions between heat, energy, and molecules that create great food. Kenji shows that often, conventional methods don’t work that well, and home cooks can achieve far better results using new—but simple—techniques. In hundreds of easy-to-make recipes with over 1,000 full-color images, you will find out how to make foolproof Hollandaise sauce in just two minutes, how to transform one simple tomato sauce into a half dozen dishes, how to make the crispiest, creamiest potato casserole ever conceived, and much more.

"This heartbreaking book tells the whole story of how a major illness affects a family. Genova's gift is to show that things do work out, in a sense. Her very human novel teaches us to keep living, to lean on each other and be there to be leaned on." -- Matthew Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Not Ourselves

In this latest edition of the successful Cartoon Guide series, master cartoonist and former Harvard instructor Larry Gonick offers a complete and up-to-date illustrated course to help students understand and learn this core mathematical course taught in American schools.
Do you think that a Cartesian plane is a luxury jetliner? Does the phrase "algebraic expression" leave you with a puzzled look? Do you believe that the Order of Operations is an Emmy-winning medical drama? Then you need The Cartoon Guide to Algebra to put you on the road to algebraic literacy.
The Cartoon Guide to Algebra covers all of algebra's essentials—including rational and real numbers, the number line, variables, expressions, laws of combination, linear and quadratic equations, rates, proportion, and graphing—with clear, funny, and easy-to-understand illustrations, making algebra's many practical applications come alive. This latest math guide from New York Times bestselling author Larry Gonick is an essential supplement for students of all levels, in high school, college, and beyond. School's most dreaded subject has never been more fun.
Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He wrote his first guide, Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform, in 1977. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and he is staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.

From an award-winning novelist, a stunning portrait of late Raj India—a sweeping saga and a love story set against a background of huge political and cultural upheaval.

At age eight, Jenny Rowan was abducted and kept for two years in a box beneath her captor's bed.

In the comfortable suburb where she lives, she's just a mom who somehow never misses a soccer game or a school play. In the state capitol, she's the redheaded lobbyist with a good cause and a mediocre track record. But in discreet hotel rooms throughout the area, she's the woman of your dreams—if you can afford her hourly fee.

Olivia Donatelli’s dream of a “normal” life shattered when her son, Anthony, was diagnosed with autism at age three. He didn’t speak. He hated to be touched. He almost never made eye contact. And just as Olivia was starting to realize that happiness and autism could coexist, Anthony was gone.

DRIVEN, the sequel to DRIVE, will be published by Poisoned Pen Press in April.

From Ed Levine and the writers of the immensely popular website Serious Eats, www.seriouseats.com.

"A perfect piece of noir fiction . . . focus[ing] on those hollowed-out moments when a man’s moral landscape suddenly shifts and he’s plunged into darkness."—The New York Times Book Review

The new novel from James Sallis, author of DRIVE, the Lew Griffin series, the Turner trilogy, and more than twenty other works of fiction, nonfiction, criticism, translation, and poetry. THE KILLER IS DYING was published by Walker/Bloomsbury in August 2011.

A bold and revelatory novel, Christina Shea’s SMUGGLED spans four decades in a woman’s quest to regain her identity from the conflicts that defined her youth.

The sixteenth book by the New York Times bestselling author and winner of both a Knight Fellowship in Science Journalism and the Inkpot Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Comic Arts, to be published January 2012 by HarperCollins.

Published by Fig Tree/Penguin UK in February 2012. "This book really is a thing of beauty...a rare achievement." --The Independent UK

LEFT NEGLECTED, the second novel by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Genova, was published by Simon & Schuster in January 2011. The trade paperback edition will be available in July.

Lisa Genova's New York Times bestselling debut novel.

G.M. Malliet's WICKED AUTUMN is the first novel from her new series featuring Max Tudor, former MI5 agent turned Anglican Priest. It was published by St. Martin's in September 2011.

From The New Yorker Magazine:
This book's great virtue is the ease with which it explains how water works its way through North America. The author, an expert on sludge, tells why our water is not all it should be, even though very little new industrial waste is being added. She describes how once plentiful species--beavers, prairie dogs, bison, alligators--indirectly contributed to cleaning water, and how the loss of forest and the decline of forest fires have affected water quality. Her tone is attractively specific: stylish in its directness, and realistic in its proposals.

In 1998 Jennifer and Jason Denton opened Ino and started serving the imaginative and delectable sandwiches that have made the restaurant a destination for Alice Waters, Martha Stewart, Nancy Silverton, and thousands of native New Yorkers. With no kitchen, only a sandwich press and a toaster, the Dentons serve some of the best and most interesting meals in New York. Here they share their secrets. Kathryn Kellinger is the co-author of THE BALTHAZAR COOKBOOK among several other cookbooks.

Chosen for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers Program and featured in People Magazine,Good Morning, America, and the BBC World Service, this is Julia Fox Garrison's witty and spirited account of her recovery from a life-threatening stroke. The American Library Association Booklist wrote, "Inspirational is too weak a word to describe Garrison's memoir."

New York Times bestseller and the fifth and final volume of the CARTOON HISTORY series, which begins with the Big Bang and works its way to the current era. The series has been translated into Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Spanish, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Indonesian, and French.

Published in the UK by Canongate and in the US by Walker, this biography was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and got rave reviews in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times.

Steven Greenhouse has been at the New York Times since 1984 and has been the Times labor and workplace reporter since 1995. As workplace reporter, he has written front-page investigative stories about Wal-Mart and about corruption in the Teamsters Union, among many other front-page stories. He has also written extensively about the decline of the American trade union movement and the problems facing American workers. THE BIG SQUEEZE, published by Knopf in 2008, won the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism in 2009.

From the authors of THE BREAKOUT PRINCIPLE.

NY Times Bestseller, Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Washington Post Bestseller. Translated into 15 languages.
By JANET MASLIN, NEW YORK TIMES
Laura Lippman’s “What the Dead Know” is an uncommonly clever impostor story, so cagily constructed that it easily fulfills the genre’s two basic demands. First, Ms. Lippman is able to keep her reader guessing about the main character’s disputed identity until the very end of this book. Second, when the revelation comes, it makes perfect sense, and it has been hiding in plain sight. This is not one of those mysteries with a denouement that feels tacked on, half baked or pulled out of thin air.
Here’s the premise: A woman involved in a Baltimore highway accident comes forth with a bizarre revelation. Out of the blue she claims to be Heather Bethany, one of two adolescent sisters who were last seen at a mall in 1975. She knows a lot about Heather, and her claim is plausible, but there’s also something about her that prompts incredulity. ...

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Vicky Bijur

Vicky Bijur started her agency in 1988 after working at Oxford University Press and with the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency. She represents fiction and non-fiction. Books she represents have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, in the New York Times Notable Books of the Year, Los Angeles Times Best Fiction of the Year, Washington Post Book World Rave Reviews of the Year, and been nominated for the L.A. Times Book Award as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. Three of her mystery writers have won Edgar awards.

Vicky has served as president of the AAR (Association of Authors’ Representatives), the only organization of literary and dramatic agents in North America. She has been a member of the AAR Royalties Committee since 1993 and is currently Chair of its Ethics Committee.